And Hitler got his start as being one of the few men seen standing up to the Reds, who were at the time (1920's thru early 30's) trying to engulf Germany in Communist revolution
Interestingly, I recently ran across some statistics on deaths among Nazi vs. Commie street-fighters under Weimar. I don’t remember the exact figures, but they were somewhere in the 300 to 500 range.
What was interesting is that about 20% more Nazis died in this fighting than Commies. Which is not totally in line with the common theory that the Nazis were the primary aggressors.